Clean up begins in Southport after violent disorder which saw 22 police injured
A huge clean up operation is underway this morning (Wed) after hundreds of far-right thugs rioted in Southport - leaving 22 police officers injured.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.
The Cardiff-born suspect's parents are reportedly from Rwanda, a largely Christian country.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.
The Cardiff-born suspect's parents are reportedly from Rwanda, a largely Christian country.
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01:44Mr. Barnes David
01:46My number is 69. We're in the drive now
01:52All the scenes last night was that I couldn't believe what was happening
01:56It all started off at the mosque
02:00And he's headed this way
02:01there was about six pounds of riot police here and
02:06You know, it was something I've never experienced before
02:13Big clear up now and oh, that's the end of it. I've been here since
02:181966
02:19Never seen anything like it
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